'From the Monkey Mountains': The Body, the Grotesque, and Carnival in the Music of Pavel Haas

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

'From the Monkey Mountains': The Body, the Grotesque, and Carnival in the Music of Pavel Haas

Original language description

It has been claimed that Pavel Haas?s string quartet From the Monkey Mountains (1925) demonstrates the composer?s alignment with the ?Western? musical avant-garde of the 1920s. However, Haas?s avant-garde affiliations remain largely unexplained, as does the influence of Leoš Janáček, with whom Haas studied. Combining the methods of music analysis, semiotics and discourse analysis, I explain how Haas reconciled Janáčekian compositional technique with the ideas underpinning the contemporary Czechoslovak avant-garde movement known as Poetism. Focusing particularly on the notions of the body, the grotesque and carnival, I propose an interpretative framework for and a reading of Haas?s quartet From the Monkey Mountains. In doing so, I also illuminate the aesthetic and cultural context of Haas?s music from the 1920s, which received little attention in previous scholarship.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of the Royal Musical Association

ISSN

0269-0403

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Volume of the periodical

141

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

51

Pages from-to

61-112

UT code for WoS article

000379622700003

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